Author Naomi Wolf, who made headlines
earlier this year after she identified the ten steps
to fascism that were being followed to a tee by
the Bush administration, spoke publicly for the
first time yesterday about the origins of what we
see unfolding today, Prescott Bush's attempt to
launch a Nazi coup in 1930's America.

Speaking on the Alex Jones Show,
Wolf said that she was first alerted to begin researching
America's slide into fascism when her friend, the
daughter of a Holocaust survivor, warned her that
the same events that laid the foundations for the
rise of the Third Reich in early 1930's Germany,
when it was still a Parliamentary democracy, were
being mirrored in modern-day America.

"A small group of people began
very systematically to use the law and dismantle
the Constitution and put pressure on citizens to
subvert the law - and that opened the door for everything
that followed," said Wolf.

"When I started reading, not
only are tactics and strategy being reproduced exactly
right now by the Bush administration - but actual
sound bytes and language and images and scenarios
are being reproduced," she added.

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Wolf's essay,
Fascist America, In 10 Easy Steps, has received
plaudits for how it succinctly describes the ways
in which dictatorships the world over throughout
the 20th century have evolved by following the
exact same blueprint for tyranny that we see unfolding
in America today.

"Everybody that wants to close
down a Democracy does the exact same ten things,
the same classic steps and unfortunately we're starting
to see these ten steps being put in place in the
United States," said Wolf.

For the first time publicly, Wolf
traced the origins of contemporary developments
back to President Bush's Nazi grandfather, Prescott
Bush, and his plan to launch a fascist coup in the
1930's.

"There was a scheme in the
30's and Prescott Bush was one of the leaders of
this scheme, an industrialist who admired fascism
and thought that was a good idea - to have a coup
in the United States along the lines of the coup
they saw taking place in Italy and Germany,"
said Wolf, referring to the testimony of Marine
Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler, who was approached
by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists
and bankers, including Prescott Bush - the current
President's grandfather, who asked him to command
a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would
help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt.

"Smedley Butler had been involved
with violent regime change throughout his career,
but he was approached by these conspirators, including
Prescott Bush, and he outed them and he testified
to Congress that they were planning a coup in the
United States - it's in the Congressional record,"
said Wolf, adding
that the coup was being bankrolled by German
industrialist and one of Hitler's chief financiers
Fritz Thyssen.

"What is amazing to me and
resonant to me is that when the Nuremberg trials
were finally put in place, these Nazi industrialists,
some of whom had colluded with Americans including
IBM, were about to be brought to trial and sent
to prison - there was a moment at which they were
going to look into turning the spotlight on their
American partners," said Wolf.

The author added that laws such
as the Military Commissions Act of 2006 were consciously
designed to protect current President Bush and his
co-conspirators from being indicted for war crimes,
harking back to Prescott Bush's history.

"The family history is that
you can make so much money uniting corporate interests
with a fascist state that violently represses people,
that's why when I saw the recycling of so much Nazi
language, Nazi tactics, Nazi strategies, Nazi imagery
in the Bush White House and then finally belatedly
people brought to me this history of Prescott Bush's
attempted coup and Smedley Butler's revelations
- it gives me absolute chills," said Wolf.

The fact that Bush's grandfather
was a Nazi cannot be presented alone as proof that
President Bush is carrying on the legacy, but his
policies and rhetoric, which
in her essay Wolf clearly documents are borrowed
from the Nazi playbook, and in particular the recent
move to smear administration critics as potential
terrorists, are evidence that George W. Bush is
the figurehead for a modern-day fascist coup in
America led by the Neo-Cons.

Wolf concluded that history shows
the only safe course for preserving freedom in such
a climate is to prosecute and jail the protagonists
of the coup as early as possible, a process many
would argue should have been enacted several years
ago.

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Alex
Jones' Endgame features rare archive
footage of Smedley Butler exposing the fascist coup.
Martial Law features an interview with researcher
John Buchanan, who was the first to discover documents
pertaining to Prescott Bush's activities in the
national archives. Watch for free at Google Video
here.